Cortex Phase II

Well the dsPIC version never really got off the ground... The processor is really very cool but I was being pretty optimistic about what I was going to achive with such a small amount of horse power and peripheral set... So skip on 3 years and I was back at it, but this time with the latest Luminary Micro offering. This thing is really very powerful and I had worked up a nice set of C++ libraries for the Cortex M3 ARM and the Luminary peripheral set. I know that a lot of people are a bit down on C++ in an embedded setting and I think that a lot of the issues stem from the fact that most C++ guys leap off into GUI programming and the big end of town and most of the embedded guys learn C and stop there. I often find that with people. Some guys are only interested in what is enough to do the job and that will do and then there are the guys that will bore you rigid about some new incredibly arcane aspect of virtualized template inheritence that in all honesty looks like a different language. As with pretty much all aspects of life there seems to be some middle ground. Something that makes use of all the useful aspects of C++ without pulling in the kitchen sink.

Anway we ran out of time as work and life again won out... Did get some cool libraries and as per usual started down the track to writing a complete tcp/ip stack and a whole buch of other Network stuff like ARP and DHCP!